The imaginary landscape of one who thinks he was born in a Kanthapura, and, for his summer vacations, visited a Malgudi!

Monday, November 07, 2005

A time for poetry!

These days I am back to reading poetry, reciting some, and listening to lots and lots of it:-) In case you are in mood for some poetry too, here are two poems of Billy Collins from the NPR site. I liked the one about the lanyard (Yeah! Till I read the poem, I did not know the word). It starts fabulously;

The other day as I was ricocheting slowlyoff the pale blue walls of this room,bouncing from typewriter to piano,from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,I found myself in the L section of the dictionarywhere my eyes fell upon the word lanyard.

and, ends, beautifully;

I was as sure as a boy could bethat this useless, worthless thing I woveout of boredom would be enough to make us even.